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title: "Gallic War — Book VI"
author: "Julius Caesar"
translator: "W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 28 of 44
url: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/28/
cite: "Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, Gallic War — Book VI, section 28. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/28/"
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# Gallic War — Book VI

*Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn*

## 28. Book VI — Chapter 28

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/28/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/28/#p-N

[¶0] There is a third kind, consisting of those animals which are called uri. These are a little below the elephant in size, and of the appearance, color, and shape of a bull.

> Latin: Tertium est genus eorum, qui uri appellantur. Hi sunt magnitudine paulo infra elephantos, specie et colore et figura tauri.

[¶1] Their strength and speed are extraordinary; they spare neither man nor wild beast which they have espied. These the Germans take with much pains in pits and kill them.

> Latin: Magna vis eorum est et magna velocitas, neque homini neque ferae quam conspexerunt parcunt. Hos studiose foveis captos interficiunt.

[¶2] The young men harden themselves with this exercise, and practice themselves in this kind of hunting, and those who have slain the greatest number of them, having produced the horns in public, to serve as evidence, receive great praise.

> Latin: Hoc se labore durant adulescentes atque hoc genere venationis exercent, et qui plurimos ex his interfecerunt, relatis in publicum cornibus, quae sint testimonio, magnam ferunt laudem.

[¶3] But not even when taken very young can they be rendered familiar to men and tamed.

> Latin: Sed adsuescere ad homines et mansuefieri ne parvuli quidem excepti possunt.

[¶4] The size, shape, and appearance of their horns differ much from the horns of our oxen.

> Latin: Amplitudo cornuum et figura et species multum a nostrorum boum cornibus differt.

[¶5] These they anxiously seek after, and bind at the tips with silver, and use as cups at their most sumptuous entertainments.

> Latin: Haec studiose conquisita ab labris argento circumcludunt atque in amplissimis epulis pro poculis utuntur.